Home Study: Health Drinking: An Oxymoron?

“Health Drinking: An Oxymoron?” describes current CDC guidelines for what levels of alcohol consumption can contribute to poor health outcomes. Tips for monitoring one’s consumption levels and support for cutting back will be discussed.

Target Audience

UPMC Mercy Nurses

Learning Objectives

By the completion of this session, participants should be able to: ( minimum of 3 objectives)
1.Describe the levels of alcohol consumption that contribute to poor health outcomes
2. Identify health conditions with which alcohol consumption has been identified as a contributing factor
3. Name three resources to help support someone in cutting back or complete alcohol cessation

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 0.50 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
Course opens: 
05/06/2021
Course expires: 
05/06/2022

“Health Drinking: An Oxymoron?” describes current CDC guidelines for what levels of alcohol consumption can contribute to poor health outcomes. Tips for monitoring one’s consumption levels and support for cutting back will be discussed.

Enduring Activity UPMC Mercy
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
United States

Todd Harvey is the Programmatic Nurse Specialist for Addiction Medicine at UPMC Mercy. Todd is a Certified Addictions Registered Nurse, with three years specializing in Addiction Medicine. Todd completed his BSN through the University of Pittsburgh’s Accelerated 2nd Degree program. Prior to nursing, Todd worked for 10 years in HIV prevention public health programs at state, federal and international levels.

Conflict of Interest Disclosure:  No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients to disclose.

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Nursing (CNE)

The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 0.5 contact hours.

Available Credit

  • 0.50 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
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Required Hardware/software

Microsoft stream recording